Privacy Policy

At Montessori Aotearoa New Zealand we understand that you value your privacy and wish to have your personal information kept secure. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by Montessori Aotearoa New Zealand and how it is used.

We use this information to analyze trends among our visitors to help improve our website via our web analytics tool Google Analytics.

Although Google Analytics places a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website.

When you use our website, our hosting servers automatically record information that your browser sends (so-called log data). This log data includes information such as your IP address along with the dates and times of access. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. This information is purely used to administer the site.

Comments

When you leave comments on our website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. We are using Akismet to reduce comment spam. Learn how they process your comment data.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on our website may include embedded content fro social networks (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as you have visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Security, retaining and deleting your personal data

When you submit your information via our websites contact form or email, we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your information.

We retain information that we collect from you only for as long as we need it for business purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

If you have left comments on our website, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you would like us to stop sending you email or other communications or would like to access your personal information to correct or delete it, you may send us a request at our email or postal addresses indicated below.

Links to other websites

We may have included links on this website for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of these websites.

Updates

Our privacy policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

Contact us

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy please contact us at or PO Box 31-461, Lower Hutt, Wellington 3144, New Zealand.

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— Maria Montessori, From Childhood to Adolescence

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